A collection of seemingly worthless computer parts have been transformed into musical instruments by a talented hip-hop band from Germany.

Fettes Brot, literally ‘Fat Bread’ in English, recently used the instruments made from 180kg of electronic waste in their performance on late night German television show ‘Neo Magazin Royale’.

The unlikely tools and several other performers helped to create an intense blend of electronic, industrial and hip-hop music.

Video of the performance shows the band members set up in an almost stereotypical arrangement, but with keyboardists replaced by typists and stage lighting replaced by flashing flatbed scanners.

The band incorporated an impressive variety of old computer technology during their performance, including:

· Sixteen floppy disk drives

· Three flatbed scanners

· Two computer hard drives

· Two dot matrix printers

· One electronic typewriter

· One beige computer tower case

· One 56kb dial-up computer modem

· Several computer keyboards

The expected cacophony of motors grinding, typewriters clicking and the dull thud of bass drum kick against an old computer case is perfectly timed to provide an impressive backing track to the Fettes Brot vocalists.

The musical experiment arguably reaches its peak when one member of the band throws to a 56kb dial-up modem for a tech-noir solo, turning the famously screeching nonsense of an old Internet connection into a surprisingly pleasant melody.